On a hill above the road to Syracuse a girl waits among the wild flowers, and a king comes riding by. McCarthy retells the medieval legend of Robert of Sicily, a ruler as arrogant as he is eloquent, who has never yielded an inch of his heart, and the strange humbling that strips him of his crown and sets a fool in his place.
A colourful romance by the author of If I Were King, familiar to readers of Longfellow’s poem on the same legend. Download the free EPUB.